Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest of these levels produce the long-term stability and progressive improvements in efficiency of the specific decision units lower in the system . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland in the north [ see pp. 38182-83 ] , relief organizations had begun implementing EC-sponsored programmes in co-operation with the government created there by the Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 3 | The research will contribute to the debate about agricultural change in Europe through a field-work study of the economic , cultural and political dimensions of the development of one estate . |
| 4 | Such behaviours as these require the development of the basic ego-function of drive-inhibition and re-direction — the suppression of an obvious , instinctual response in favour of an indirect , but intelligent one . |
| 5 | A site was sought for a garage , but before the matter could be taken further , there came news of a possible change in control of the company and things were left in abeyance for the time being . |
| 6 | They doubted that this act represented any substantial change in policy and did not regard it as sufficient to confirm Pakistani non-alignment in light of the continuation of strong military links between Washington and Islamabad . |
| 7 | A year after the death his mother had married Edmund Morgan , a widowed church organist of mind-numbing dullness , and had retired with him to Bognor Regis where they lived on his father 's insurance money in a spacious bungalow in sight of the sea , in an obsessive mutual devotion which mirrored the meticulous order and tidiness of their world . |
| 8 | The local government lawyer works at the centre of the organisation using professional skills in support of the chief executive , the management team and the departments that provide the services for the public . |
| 9 | The Republicans lost their narrow majority in Congress at the 1954 mid-term elections ; but Eisenhower 's personal popularity ensured that they retained the White House in 1956 , when he defeated Adlai Stephenson by an even greater margin than in 1952 . |
| 10 | It is therefore usual for the offer letter to contain a clause permitting the investor , its accountants and other professional advisers to conduct due diligence in relation to the target business . |
| 11 | Henceforth he interpreted all political phenomena in terms of an anti-semitic conspiracy theory . |
| 12 | In this respect CCW appears to be no different , although we hope it will greatly strengthen political support in Wales for the need to conserve and use natural resources sustainably . |
| 13 | The ESRC have recently commissioned research into aspects of social , economic and political change in Europe with a focus on Eastern Europe . |
| 14 | Although they had no objection to the presence of professional artists in schools as a means of stimulating pupils and demonstrating the valuable work which artists offered the community through their own professional activities , they were concerned that the artists in schools programme appeared to be subverting the search for a coherent arts programme for all pupils . |
| 15 | Unless the objectives outlined in the first year of the Medau Society 's Development Plan are achieved only applications for support to specific projects in line with the Council 's strategy would be considered in future . |
| 16 | They believe the council , aware of its weak case in favour of the barrage , is trying to wear down the opposition by attrition . |
| 17 | The neo-conservative economic policies in vogue throughout the West for the past decade have served to redistribute income upwards , creating the infamous Yuppies with their taste for BMWs and white wines . |
| 18 | When he 's not zapping helmetted contestants in front of a TV camera , he 's usually to be found pumping iron in a gym somewhere . |
| 19 | Subsequently Hare ( 1966 ) suggested that the outstanding change in climatology in the post-1945 years has been the shift away from parameters such as temperature and relative humidity and towards the measurement of fluxes . |
| 20 | In the second half of the year the major Japanese banks were already concentrating more effort in Singapore following a downturn in lending to China and a simultaneous rise in business with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 21 | While tempered by experience and ( according to Beard ) self-interest , the framers of the United States Constitution were informed by Lockean values and sought to impose a political framework in line with a Lockean conception of society . |
| 22 | It was the start of nearly 50 years hanging bells in churches across the country , so when the 6 at St Thomas 's in Oxford needed repairing , he told parishioners to ring the changes and let him install 4 extra ones . |
| 23 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 24 | Reid switched off his decrepit Ford in front of a building visible only in patches through the railings of a once-white wooden veranda , over which trailed bougainvillaea , syringa , convolvulus , and hibiscus in a riot of colour . |
| 25 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 26 | On the other , the uncertainties of war are likely to need the most sensitive political response in terms of the Cabinet 's relations with party , Parliament and public . |
| 27 | In our opinion the directors are entitled under sections 246 and 247 of the Companies Act 1985 to deliver abbreviated accounts in respect of the year ended 31st March 1991 , and the abbreviated accounts on pages 1 to 3 have been properly prepared in accordance with Schedule 8 to that Act . |
| 28 | It has been held that volenti will provide a complete defence in actions against the police or hospital authorities where the deceased was of sound mind . |
| 29 | Theorists can now solve the problems of solid-state physics in terms of the local structure , whereas previously they could deal only with materials where the complete structure was periodic and crystalline symmetry allowed them to make colossal simplifications . |
| 30 | I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly-made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . |